Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-12-03
"HIS NIBS WAS PLEASED
Hon. P. H. Kelly Finds Here a Land
Of Great PrOmise-He Predicts
that Great Falls will
a Great Place.

SAINT PAUL, November 30.-Hon. P.
HI. Kelly, or, as he likes to be called,
the duke of Saint Paul, greeted Pioneer
Press reporter very cordially yesterday,
and told the following tale of his recent
trip to Helena, on the occasion of the com
pletion of the Manitoba road to that city.
@You may say" he began, that his nibs
was pleased. We read in the Bible that
the Israelites journeyed into the wilder
ness and saw the promised land. We did
the same. We journeyed into the vast
wilderness of the west, and saw not only
the promised land, but land of great
promise. There is no country in the world
where there are as rich lands as in the
Milk river and the Sun river valleys along
the line of the Manitoba road to Sun river
bridge. At Great Falls the view was
grand one; in the distance the Rocky
mountains loomed up most majestically,
and though seventy miles away they seem
ed but twenty.
"The Missouri river at Great Falls is
fine stream, and along the stream as far as
we could see were cattle and horses graz
ing 1t is a high, swift running river and
very difficult to cross in high wind,
though after much trouble we did so. The
water of these falls drops about 26 feet,
and about six miles below are Rainbow
falls, forty-nine feet in height, with boil
ing springs below. There are other falls
still further down the river which am
told are ninety feet high, but [ didn't go
to see them. The coal fields within TWEEN
ty-five miles of Great Falls will soon be
developed, and if the iron ore which ev-
erywhere abounds is smelted at Great
Falls, I look for that city to be one of the
greatest cities in the northwest.
"The ride from that town to Helena was
a most interesting one. Talk about your
Switzerland scenery; why, it cont hold
candle to the wonderful panorama which
we saw from our car window. The Swiss
mountains dwarf to insignifcance when
compared to the Rockies near the Missou-
ri. Far up the II ountain side could be seen
bowling to their omnipotent ruler, the
wind. and at intervals could be heard
sound like that of thunder, as huge
boulder of snow and sleet would be loos-
ened from its resting place and descend
like an avalanche into the abyss below"
Here the noble duke became SO ilowery in
his word painting that he commenced to
talk so orapidly that the scribe was unable
to catch what he said, and therefore
cannot give any further description OF
the wonderful scenery extant in that re-
gion.
ave arrived at Helena continued Mr..
Kelly, whe he had calmed down little,
"at 1:3O on Monday, and the celebration
began, one of the parties going to China
town to resume his missionary lahors
there, while the rest joined in the par
ade. D. G. Shepard was too busy 'figur-
ing on new contract to enjoy the seen
cry or the parade to any great extent;
however, heard him reciting Hamlet's
soliloquy over an Indian skull just as we
left after the fun. The trip was the most
pleasant of my life. We went 2, 400 miles
| in three and half days, running time,
over magnificent roadbed. The next
trip of the party will be to the gates of
| Rimini and Butte, and until then, au re-
| yoir3 -